November 5, 2013

Time flies, and I haven’t made any release of Colibri for a long time, despite it being used in production and bug being fixed as they are found. So here it is. No shiny new feature there, it’s mostly about bug fixing, code cleaning and updating the code. More importantly:

Colibri now requires Django 1.6, about to be released in a few days. Chances are that it is released already if you reach this page.

Superusers (as in Django) now have access to all lists configuration pages and archives on the public site. They can access everything from the admin/ anyway, and it helps debugging.

Several encoding bugs were fixed, most notably related to utf-8 and “Subject” headers.

Thanks to Django-1.5 new configurable User model, we now have a clean User, relying only on the email, without any username, faked or not.

Don’t trust the automatic changelog, lot of things have happened under the hood and more bugs have been fixed that those cited there.

If you update from 1.0-beta1 or previous, you will need to migrate the database. Here is what need to be done

rename the table colibri.auth_user to colibri.emailonlyauth_user

delete the field username in colibri.emailonlyauth_user

rename the table colibri.auth_user_groups to colibri.emailonlyauth_user_groups

rename the table colibri.auth_user_user_permissions to colibri.emailonlyauth_user_user_permissions

don’t forget to run ./manage.py syncdb

Yes, I know about south or other Django migration tools. I do even use south on other Django projects. But I didn’t feel like it was necessary to add the dependency just for this.